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PYP School in Mapou

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Give Your Child a World-Class Start to Their Education

Pre-Nursery to Primary | Ages 18 months to 6 years

Our Early Years and Primary programmes provide an exceptional educational foundation, setting children up for lasting success. From Pre-Nursery, children develop their natural curiosity and creativity, growing in confidence and ability as they progress through these formative years. Through an inquiry- and play-based approach, they develop the academic, social, and personal skills needed to thrive throughout their educational journey.

Guided by highly qualified teachers, children begin their journey in our Reggio Emilia-inspired environment before progressing into our IB Primary Years Programme, a globally recognised approach to early learning. Enriched by a wide range of extracurricular activities and opportunities for multilingual learning, our students thrive, blossoming into inquisitive, accomplished, and ambitious young learners who are ready to pursue their goals.

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Nurturing Every Child's Potential

Children at our Pre-Nursery in Mapou benefit from carefully designed learning experiences that support early childhood development and lay the foundations for future academic and personal growth. Inspired by the globally recognised Reggio Emilia approach, our curriculum and inquiry-based teaching methodology encourage children to explore their surroundings, investigate new discoveries, and find creative solutions from an early age. With play as the primary medium for teaching, children strengthen concentration, coordination, sensory awareness, and early language skills while enjoying the process of discovery. They are also introduced to digital literacy and AI awareness through age-appropriate resources, building familiarity with technology and safe digital habits alongside a deeper understanding of the world around them.

Our highly qualified teachers are at the heart of our family-centred environment, offering attentive, personalised support within our dedicated Early Years spaces.

Children also benefit from exposure to both English and French, alongside extracurricular activities that enrich their learning through storytelling, French and playdough club, recyclable crafts, sports, and weekly appointments with gross motor specialists, ensuring holistic development. With a free aftercare service available until 4:00 pm, families can enjoy greater flexibility while children continue to benefit from a safe, engaging environment beyond the school day.

Internationalism

Shaping Young Minds for a World of Possibility

From age 3, pupils begin a more structured approach to learning that brings together aspects of the Reggio Emilia approach with the globally renowned IB Primary Years Programme. This combination of inquiry-based, transdisciplinary learning and an environment designed to inspire exploration and self-assurance helps pupils make meaningful connections between subjects, explore real-world themes, and learn to question, investigate, and apply their understanding in purposeful ways.

Strong foundations in literacy, numeracy, science, languages, and the arts are complemented by specialist teaching in music, drama, dance, physical education, and digital literacy, while English and French are integrated throughout the programme.

Classroom learning is enriched by a diverse programme of sports, creative activities, clubs, service initiatives, and Eco-School projects, giving pupils opportunities to explore their interests while making a meaningful contribution to their community and environment.

Highly qualified teachers provide personalised guidance, supported by specialist facilities including science laboratories, art studios, music rooms, sports facilities, and well-resourced library and media centres. In Years 5 and 6, elements of the Cambridge curriculum are introduced within the PYP framework, helping pupils become familiar with the academic expectations of the Cambridge pathway and preparing them for the next stage of their education.

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Our Global Primary School Curriculum

Our Primary school in Mapou is a fully authorised International Baccalaureate World School offering the PYP for children from Nursery to Year 6. The IB Primary Years Programme (IBPYP) is an international curriculum framework designed for children between the ages of 3 and 12 years. This programme is based on the latest educational research and believes that each child has their own personality, learning style and combination of intelligence types. Opportunity is given, within a structured framework, for students to explore their own interests and questions. PYP students are well prepared for the next stage of education, including the British IGCSE's.

Importantly for our young learners, the IBPYP focuses on their social, physical, emotional, and cultural needs as part of a strong academic ethos. The PYP supports students’ efforts to gain understanding of the world and to function comfortably within it, and helps them establish personal values as a foundation upon which international mindedness will develop and flourish.

The IBPYP Develops:

  • Sensitivity to the experiences of others through the curriculum
  • The characteristics listed in the student profile
  • The attitudes that are an explicit element of the programme
  • The expectation of socially responsible action as a result of the learning experience.

Internationalism

Internationalism is a key aspect of the PYP curriculum. The PYP supports students’ efforts to gain understanding of the world and to function comfortably within it, and helps them establish personal values as a foundation upon which international-mindedness will develop and flourish. At our Primary school in Mapou, we are inspired by the diversity of our community and the world at large. We empower ourselves with the knowledge, skills and understanding to become true global citizens. By appreciating ourselves and one another, we work towards creating and sustaining a harmonious future.

Inquiry based learning

Inquiry based learning

Teaching methods build on students individual knowledge and interests. Inquiry, is the leading but not exclusive pedagogical approach of the PYP. It is recognised as being intimately connected with the development of children’s comprehension of the world. Inquiry is the process initiated by the learner or the teacher which moves the learner from his or her current level of understanding to a new and deeper level of understanding.

This can mean:

  • Exploring, wondering and questioning
  • Experimenting and playing with possibilities
  • Researching and seeking information
  • Collecting data and reporting findings
  • Clarifying existing ideas and reappraising events
  • Making and testing theories
  • Making predictions and acting purposefully to see what happens
  • Elaborating on solutions to problems.

Transdiciplinary

The word transdisciplinary refers to connections that transcend individual disciplines. Transdisciplinary study involves the links or interconnections across disciplines. It is a reflection of the reality in which we live. A transdisciplinary concept may reach across disciplines such as Mathematics, Science, English and Social Studies, and link them all together. By definition, a transdisciplinary concept is not confined to one subject. For example, the concept of ‘change’ may feature in Mathematics, Science, English, and Social Studies. Thus ‘change’ can then be studied through the lenses of these different disciplines.

Six Transdisciplinary Themes

An inquiry into the nature of the self; beliefs and values; personal, physical, mental, social and spiritual health; human relationships including families, friends, communities, and cultures; rights and responsibilities; what it means to be human.

An inquiry into orientation in place and time; personal histories; homes and journeys; the discoveries, explorations and migrations of humankind; the relationships between and the interconnectedness of individuals and civilisations, from local and global perspectives.

An inquiry into the ways in which we discover and express ideas, feelings, nature, culture, beliefs and values; the ways in which we reflect on, extend and enjoy our creativity; our aesthetic appreciation.

An inquiry into the natural world and its laws; the interaction between the natural world (physical and biological) and human societies; how humans use their understanding of scientific principles; the impact of scientific and technological advances on society and on the environment.

An inquiry into the interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities; the structure and function of organizations; societal decision making; economic activities and their impact on humankind and the environment.

An inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and with other living things; communities and the relationships within and between them; access to equal opportunities; peace and conflict resolution.

Knowledge

The PYP recognises that in an international community of learners it is inappropriate to dictate what every child should know. The PYP has identified themes, or areas of knowledge, which are used to organize the six Units of Inquiry, taught from Nursery through Year 6. These Units of Inquiry provide the framework for a wide variety of resources to be explored.

Concepts

Concepts

These are the seven fundamental concepts expressed as key questions, to propel the process of inquiry.

Form: What is it like?

Function: How does it work?

Causation: Why is it like it is?

Change: How is it changing?

Connection: How is it connected to other things?

Perspective: What are the different points of view?

Responsibility: What is our responsibility?

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